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[Telephone operator at booth, new quotation system, New York Stock Exchange] – Vintage Wall Art

[Telephone operator at booth, new quotation system, New York Stock Exchange], c1928. — historic photograph
[Telephone operator at booth, new quotation system, New York Stock Exchange], c1928.. Historic photograph from the New York City collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A telephone operator seated at her booth on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange is the focus here, shown beside the new quotation system that the Exchange introduced around 1928. Before such systems were in place, price information moved across the floor by runners, hand signals and chalkboards, so a booth like this one marked a shift toward faster, centralized handling of market prices. The Exchange had a long record of adopting new communication technology as trading volume grew through the 1920s, and photographs like this one documented its modern facilities for the public and for its own records.

Created / publishedc1928.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1920-1930.Photographic prints 1920-1930.
NotesCopyright by New York Stock Exchange.
SubjectsNew York Stock Exchange--Facilities--1920-1930. Telephone operators--1920-1930. Stock exchanges--New York (State)--New York--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,275 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-180821

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